On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 05:08:51AM -0700, walt wrote: > On 10/16/2011 03:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo!
> > I'm using Gnome 2.32.1 in X11. > > My mouse pointers have all acquired unwanted borders. That is to say, > > where there used just to be a solid black arrow, it is now surrounded by > > a black outline enclosing a white outline around the arrow. > > I don't like this! I didn't ask for it! > > I first noticed this problem while starting Firefox. It seemed to hiccup > > a bit (I think), and then all pointers (in all applications) went bad. > > I've looked inside Gnome "preferences", but can't find a way to change > > the pointers back. I suspect this is an X setting rather than a Gnome > > one. > Have a look at gnome-extra/gcursor. Just done that. I've installed it, and it gives just four choices, all of which have the border I don't like or (even worse) a shadow. Other than that it gives a file selector, which doesn't seem to be of any use. What I want is to just to get back the plain black icons I had before. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
